Visual literacy is a “set of abilities that enables an individual to effectively find, interpret, evaluate, use, and create images and visual media.”[1] Visual literacy is an interdisciplinary concept and plays an important role across higher education – in the arts, humanities, science, technology, business, and more. Twenty-first century college students are expected to use and critique images in their academic work, and to produce visual materials that effectively communicate their research and scholarly activities. Visual literacy competence is essential for successful participation in this media-rich academic environment.

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There are several ways that the term "visual language" can be used. Sometimes it is used to talk about general visual information or visual culture. It might be used as a broad term for visual culture, or for any combination of text and images. Some people use it to describe creative ways to use writing in pictorial ways.

by Jon Pearson — A picture is a thousand words. Actually, according to the original Chinese saying, a picture is ten thousand words. So, maybe thinking better visually can help us think better verbally. If I ask you, “What was your favorite birthday?” your brain goes on a picture search, not a text search. You’re not reading words but sifting (subliminally) through pictures at lightning speed until specific scenes and feelings pop up, which only then may be put into words

About a week ago I decided to reinvent my mission at the Skool of Life. I wanted to see if I could learn a new skill every 30 days. So I decided that I would teach myself how to draw. Needless to say my first few sketches were nothing to write home about. But I’ve made some progress.

As I expected, teaching myself how to draw has come with some valuable insights...

This is a blog with links to different articles, artworks, scientific research, programming tools,... Visual Heuristics means, seeking to find out - heuristics about visual language. This is a research project to understand ourselves through our drawings.

There's an ever-increasing trend to display information in the form of tall, indecipherable infographics: long colorful panels that look like they contain a wealth of information, but don't. That's not a good thing.

Hallelujah! I hate long infographics as my eye and brain doesn't work like that and you can't print out less than 2 pages. Rally around 1 page infographics that you can stick on a wall or fill a screen without scrolling. Thanks Jeff. Let's start a movement!

There is a certain class of visual thinking product that takes some textual content that’s on the web, and organizes it as a map, and it’s these we’ll look at today and over the next few posts. These are categorized as ‘visual content delivery’ in the Master List.

It begins before we can speak and, in some cases, continues for life. People do it in public, in private, at meetings, in airports, at family gatherings, or any other place where a writing implement can be found. Great ideas are discovered through it, strategic plans are mapped out by it, businesses have been created from it.

Sunni Brown is the leader of the Doodle Revolution. In her TEDTalk, Sunni explains why we must continue to doodle.

Communicating visually is one of those skills many believe they can’t achieve. There are others on the interwebs and authors of books that have extensive examples, tutorials, and styles to help you get started. Even with great books like Dan Roam’s, Back of the Napkin and Mike Rohde’s book, The Sketchnote Handbook some still struggle with the idea of capturing what they see in their “mind’s eye” and transferring those concepts to paper.

Piktochart is a great tool that I have been personally using to create infographics to share with you. I have reviewed this tool in several instances here in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning and am glad to hear that some of you have found it equally useful.

Maps can be a remarkably powerful tool for understanding the world and how it works, but they show only what you ask them to. So when we saw a post sweeping the Web titled “40 maps they didn’t teach you in school,” one of which happens to be a WorldViews original, I thought we might be able to contribute our own collection. Some of these are pretty nerdy, but I think they’re no less fascinating and easily understandable. A majority are original to this blog (see our full maps coverage here), with others from a variety of sources. I’ve included a link for further reading on close to every one.

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